oliver    |    hoeller

oliver.hoeller ucsf.edu

Postdoctoral Fellow

Education

2003 - 2007
Ph.D., Molecular Biology
University of Cambridge, UK

2001 - 1997
M.Sc., Genetics
University of Vienna, Austria

Fellowships and Awards

EMBO Long-Term Fellowship, 2008 - 2010

Research

Eukaryotic chemotaxis: Understanding the actual and exploiting the possible

Publications

King, J., Teo, R., Reddy, J., Keim, M., Kapur, M., Hoeller, O., Dalton, E., and Harwood, A.J.
"Lithium attenuates PI(3,4,5)P3 signaling during Dictyostelium cell polarization and chemotaxis."
Submitted

Kamimura, Y., Xiong, Y., Iglesias, P.A., Hoeller, O., Bolourani, P., and Devreotes, P.N.
"PIP3-independent activation of TORC2 and PKB at the cell’s leading edge mediates chemotaxis."
Current Biology 18, 1034-43 (2008).

Kay, R.R., Langridge, P.D., Traynor, D., and Hoeller, O. "Changing direction in the study of chemotaxis." Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 9, 455-463 (2008).

Hoeller, O. and Kay, R.R. "Chemotaxis in the Absence of PIP3 Gradients." Current Biology 17, 813-7 (2007).

Zigman, M., Cayouette, M., Charalambous, C., Schleiffer, A., Hoeller, O., Dunican, D., McCudden, C.R., Firnberg, N., Barres, B.A., Siderovski, D.P., and Knoblich, J.A. "Mammalian inscuteable regulates spindle orientation and cell fate in the developing retina." Neuron 48, 539-45 (2005).

Hampoelz, B., Hoeller, O., Bowman, S.K., Dunican, D., and Knoblich, J.A. "Drosophila Ric-8 is essential for plasma-membrane localization of heterotrimeric G proteins." Nature Cell Biology 7, 1099-105 (2005).